healthy single.
I'm ready to mingle.
No.
And I think really quickly and I I'd
quite like to grab your number.
Oh, okay.
Attractive guy approached me and said,
you know, you're beautiful. Can I talk
to you outside for a second? And that
video has now reached almost 20 million
views. between me taking my phone and
putting it in your face where you're
kind of aware that you're being filmed
versus metagasses where you really think
you're having a genuine conversation
with somebody.
There's no shortage of examples online.
You're the prettiest girl in all Miami.
Some even linking to the high-tech
glasses they're using.
Capture your unique perspective in an
instant straight from your glasses.
These meta AI glasses are one of the
most dystopian consumer tech products
I've seen in my lifetime. and it seems
no one's talking about it. I've watched
a lot of review videos about them and
while some do make a point about certain
negatives, it's often just a comment in
passing.
Are you still listening?
No, I'm saying
that's a little concerning, honestly.
But I'm fairly confident that the number
one use of these by far is to use the
built-in cameras to record POV videos.
She mentioned that she didn't even
realize that I was filming half the
time. And I think that's what makes
these so much fun.
Maybe the biggest downside of this
particular product, which is that it is
meta. And that's not a disaster, but it
also does mean you still will have the
privacy questions of exactly what data
is being collected and what they do with
it.
Again, I can't I keep I don't feel
comfortable wearing those. Would you
rather be talking to someone and see
them check their phone or their
smartwatch real quick and it's kind of
rude but then they're over it or you're
talking to someone who's maybe wearing
some glasses like this and every once in
a while they just kind of glance down
and to the right a little bit while
they're talking to you. And it's subtle
but you don't know if they're actually
paying attention to you or not.
something to think about.
Now, maybe they don't think it's within
the scope of a tech review as that's
what a lot of these channels focus on.
And to be fair, a lot of these are brand
sponsored videos, which I can understand
because very few creators can depend on
YouTube revenue alone. But it's my
belief that if you're making
recommendations to people if they should
buy these AI glasses or not, we can't
only talk about the positives. We need
to have a conversation about how the
glasses may impact the users, the people
around them, and society, and our
humanity in general. Because tech these
days, especially with AI, is having a
huge impact on our day-to-day life. And
this needs to be considered and
discussed when reviewing and talking
about these AI products. If not, we're
just a gullible dumb sheep consumers
giving in to whatever product these tech
companies put in front of us without
consideration for the potential harmful
outcomes and the largecale long-term
societal and human impacts. That's what
I want to talk about today. So, let's
get into it. Problem number one, tools
for predators. I want you to imagine a
situation. A male child predator wants
to film kids. These days, in many places
in North America, he can put on a dress
and a wig and walk into any female
changing room. And now with these AI
glasses, he could covertly record
everything he sees, including women and
children naked. Another situation is
with children's playgrounds. If a man
was sitting on a park bench very close
to a children's playground with his
phone out filming, the mothers would ask
him what he was doing, if not
immediately call the police. But now
that same man can just be walking around
watching from a distance recording
everything he sees. There are so many
potential situations like these, like
men covertly filming in nightclubs, in
bars, men and women filming in gyms, and
in all the places where vulnerable
populations like women and children tend
to congregate, potentially surveilling
their next victim. The top complaint
cited in almost every Reddit thread is
the ability to record people without
their knowledge or consent. Obviously,
this can all be done with a smartphone,
but it's much harder to do covertly
without drawing attention. Unlike phones
where raising a device signals intent,
these glasses allow seamless eye level
capture of faces, conversations, and
environments. Personally, one of my
biggest issues is that these AI glasses
aren't immediately noticeable, unlike
the Apple Vision Pro, and it's becoming
increasingly hard to tell if someone is
wearing them or not, as we've been
programmed to see glasses on people's
faces as normal. For example, if I order
a couch and the delivery person comes in
wearing Meta's AI glasses, they can
stake out my house and send the footage
to potential robbers to assess what type
of valuables I have, where they are
located, and what type of security is
present. Never would I think to take a
good look at his glasses because all my
focus is on my brand new couch. But now,
assessing if people are wearing these AI
glasses is going to be increasingly
important to protect our privacy,
security, and that of our family. Smart
glasses have come a long way since they
were first introduced with many
companies like Meta partnering with
Rayban to design their AI glasses to
look exactly like regular non AAI
models. Other smart glasses also come in
a variety of colors and styles, so they
are very hard to detect, especially from
a distance. Another issue is that it's
very easy to hide the light that turns
on when the user is recording with a
simple piece of tape. Furthermore, users
can automatically upload video and live
stream videos to their IG or other
social media platforms. So once the
video is uploaded, it's almost
impossible to erase. You can delete
things, but that doesn't mean it wasn't
copied and saved in some other location
for future viewing and sharing. All to
say, you have to be very familiar with
all these AI glasses and really get a
good look at someone's face to know if
they might be recording you. And even
then, it can be very difficult.
Personally, if I see someone wearing
these AI glasses, I will go out of my
way to avoid them. I don't want them
approaching me or talking to me,
especially if I'm with my children,
because I have no idea what their
intentions are, if they're recording or
not, and how those videos or photos
might be used. These AI glasses make it
way too easy to track people, capture
photos or videos, which may be taken and
used without your consent, and
potentially in worst case scenarios lead
to blackmail, harassment, losing your
job, etc. Mark Zuckerberg claims that
these AI glasses are great content
creation tools. And in a world full of
AI slop, do we really need more cheap
content filmed from people's faces? If
anything, I think we all crave real
inerson human connection. And it seems
these AI glasses only further remove us
from reality. Problem number two, data
used against our consent and government
surveillance. The question is, how much
can we really trust these big tech
companies to have us the users best
interest as their number one priority?
Personally, it's zero for me. For
example, Meta continues to claim its
social media platforms do not have a
negative effect on mental health, while
its own internal research showed
evidence to the contrary. Across the
board, all these tech companies
prioritize growth over safety. So, is it
really out of the realm of possibility
that they would use the data from these
AI glasses for their own benefit? For
example, government sharing. There are
so many parallels between these AI
glasses and Ring doorbells. Initially,
Ring doorbells seems like a cheap way
for homeowners to add a level of
security to their homes. Well, we now
know that police agencies have been able
to access this footage without owner's
knowledge or consent. And to a certain
extent, it's still being done today. So,
why wouldn't this also be true for AI
glasses? If users are within a certain
proximity to a crime or situation, it
wouldn't be crazy to think the
government would want access to that
footage. Why spend billions on
surveillance tools and strategies when
you can just have everyday people do the
work for you? I remember when Ring
doorbells started popping up in my old
neighborhood. It felt so dystopian, like
I didn't want to go for walks or sit on
my doorstep anymore. And now I don't
even want to think about these AI
glasses being worn by everybody on the
street. It's mass surveillance where
everybody's contributing and paying for
it and you cannot opt out. Another
example is ad profiling. The internet
runs on ads and many of these AI smart
glass companies like Meta and Google are
basically ad revenue corporations. As
they increasingly spend billions to
build out their AI infrastructure, the
more revenue they are going to need from
these ads to cover their costs. So, it's
certainly possible that these AI glasses
will be actively listening, watching,
and monitoring users behavior to create
a better user profile for advertising.
People already find it weird that they
can have a conversation about an item
and then when they open social media,
the first ad they see is about the item
they were just discussing. So, what
happens, for example, if I'm wearing
Meta's AI glasses while furniture
shopping? I tell the salesperson I can't
decide between the blue couch or the red
couch. So, I decide to sleep on it and
come back in the morning. While at
dinner that night, I tell my friends
that I love the blue couch, but it's a
little bit out of my price range. If it
was $500 less, I would buy it. The next
morning, I open social media and boom,
the first ad I see is $500 off that
beautiful blue couch. Crazy, right?
Maybe it was a sign that it was meant to
be. I don't know. But I decide to go buy
it. The issue is that blue couch wasn't
selling. They are about to offer a 50%
discount to get rid of their inventory,
but because of customer profiling, they
sold a $3,000 couch for $2500 instead of
the 50% off $1,500 price tag. This AI
pricing or algorithmic pricing, which
sets different prices for the same
product for different people based on
personal characteristics, behavior, and
shopping habits, is not new, but risk
getting a lot worse as these tools get
better at profiling people. My final
example is AI training. Many of these
smart glass companies are in an AI arms
race with one another and spending
billions to be number one. So, it's very
possible that these smart glasses are
all about training their AIs on our
lives. They certainly will create an
enormous amount of very valuable data.
And as these AI systems run out of data
to learn from, why not create glasses to
feed this increasingly hungry, basically
insatiable machine? These examples are
just possibilities. But just because
they aren't features today doesn't mean
they won't be in the future. Companies
can push silent updates to record
everything, any time to anyone. They
might promise you it's safe, but
anything connected to the internet with
a camera is never safe. All it takes is
a change in leadership, which can change
the rules and laws. And heck, sometimes
the government and even corporations
will do it illegally. If they want to do
it, they will do it. And most often, we
don't even hear about it. Problem number
three, distractions and safety risks.
Distractions like pop-up notifications,
hands-free recording, and AI queries
appearing in people's field of vision
while performing high-risisk tasks is
extremely dangerous. For example, back
in 2013, a woman named Cecilia Abdi was
pulled over for swerving and arrested
for DUI. Officers discovered she was
using Google Glass to review navigation
directions, which they deemed a
distraction. This is just one of the
first and many instances of smart eyeear
causing impaired driving. Some might
argue that any smartwear that could
affect your field of vision should be
banned. After all, it's illegal to hold
a smartphone while driving, but what
about the hands-free version over your
eyes? Ultimately, the issue is where is
your focus and attention? I see this all
the time. Parents buried in their phones
while their kids play in the distance
and when they finally look up looking
around wondering where their kids are.
So many accidents have occurred and so
many lives have been lost due to a lack
of awareness, focus, and attention
caused by our smartphones. I can only
imagine that smart glasses will have an
exponential effect because few people
will take their glasses off, especially
if they need them to see. Perhaps some
type of notification block can be
implemented while driving, but that
doesn't solve any of the distracted
pedestrians or parents watching their
children. Honestly, I'm somewhat at a
loss to see how smart glasses won't lead
to people being more distracted and
potentially cause an immense number of
horrible accidents. If you have thoughts
on this, I would love to hear them in
the comments below. Problem number four,
being hacked. Just like any internet
connected device, smart glasses can be
hacked. Personally, this is absolutely
terrifying to me because not only could
hackers know where you are, but also be
informed about your surrounding and
environment. For example, who is in your
house and what possessions you have and
where do you keep them? Hackers can also
get a view into your private life,
seeing your children and loved ones in
vulnerable situations to exploit and
blackmail. There are so many instances
of baby monitors being hacked, which is
crazy because you would think they would
be the safest thing in our homes.
watching over the most precious thing in
our lives. But it happens time and time
again. So it seems probable that smart
glasses, which get a point of view of
every moment of our lives, would be
prime targets for bad actors. Many
people fear allowing robots into our
homes for this exact reason. But it
seems few are pointing out this same
problem with smart glasses, which to me
is so much worse because it's not only
in your home, but everywhere you go. The
last problem I want to talk about is
number five, mental health. In
researching this video, I came across a
new term called the right to unplug. And
I thought that was really interesting
because we now live in a time where many
people around the world still don't have
access to reliable internet. The
argument here is that the internet
should be accessible to everyone
basically as a human right versus in the
US and Canada and many other developed
countries. The argument is that we
should have a right to disconnect and
that we shouldn't be expected to be
available and accessible 24/7.
Personally, over the last few weeks and
months, I've really tried to cut back on
my screen time. I deleted Instagram off
my phone and have my phone on silent
almost always except for a few key
people. I'll be honest, it feels really
good. I'm so much more present with my
kids and family. And this is coming from
someone who wasn't really active on
social media to begin with. As I try to
grow this channel, that might have to
change. But the point being is that I
can't even imagine the mental disconnect
that high users of social media have
with reality. Long ago, Facebook
promised to connect the world and bring
us closer together. I think it's pretty
obvious by now to say it didn't really
work. And some might argue it basically
had the opposite effect. We now feel
more isolated, lonely, and sad, and
alone because of our mass connectivity.
And increasingly with these new AI
glasses, the little time we do spend
uninterrupted face to face with people
is vanishing. There's always a screen
between people. Even in real life, we no
longer have a shared human experience
because what you see is not what I see.
Are you looking at me or your
notifications? Are you listening to what
I'm saying? or are you checking the
weather for the next week? Do you even
care about me or rather talk to your AI
friend? Honestly, I'm really failing to
see the value and true benefit of these
smart glasses. It's eroding the last
little piece of our real human
interactions and shared experiences.
That's what we need now more than ever.
Yet, all these advances in consumer
technology seem to be pushing us in the
opposite direction, sucking us dry. It's
really sad to watch, especially when we
look at young people who seem to be
increasingly burdened and forced into
all this technology at such a young age
and will most definitely affect them for
the rest of their lives. So, for the
conclusion, what's the take-home message
from all of this? Well, if not obvious,
I'm extremely pessimistic with regards
to these new AI glasses, mostly due to
their camera feature. Because
personally, I see very little value for
them, especially compared to their
immense negative personal and societal
impact. My hope is that they will get
banned from schools, community centers,
gyms, basically anywhere that's a public
community space with vulnerable
population groups like women and
children. I also quickly want to touch
on some pauses because I do believe
there are a few. For example, for people
with disabilities to have more autonomy
and be able to navigate through the
world better, for creators doing DIY
style videos to show their POV, for
example, cooking, fixing cars,
gardening. Obviously, there are already
cameras out there for that, but the
convenience and ease of putting on a
pair of glasses and pressing record can
be tempting. I can also see some
beneficial use cases for sports like
cycling and running. Honestly, right
before I finished writing the script for
this video, I watched this YouTube video
and it really made me question if
there's any hope. I don't know if
Western countries like the US and Canada
would go along with this, especially if
you have people like myself, and I'm I
mean, I'm a tiny YouTuber, but I'm
pushing back. I'm trying to against AI
tech products and these AI smart
classes, but it feels so minuscule
compared to robots, police robots in the
streets. It's overwhelming. It's insane.
We are adopting AI so fast, and it seems
no one's second guessing if this is a
good thing or not. As a new mother, I
worry about our kids' futures, and I
definitely believe they deserve better
than inheriting our dystopian mess.
Anyways, that's it for me on this video.
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I = (R * S / A) + V

Alert Score, AS =
mitigator(0) - aggravtor(10)

(R)Relationship: family membe-best friends-sesh friends-my boss-cops

(V)current Visible hints:
normal, calm, innocent-panting, bleeding / neat casual teenager - scruffy otaku, sharp yakuza-suits 

(S)social cueing: showy-don't care-obfuscation-undercover operation

(A)public Awarenesss of the device:
 James Pond spy items - normal phone


(C)Place;
 workplace / public street / shared family space / my bedroom